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ASB, Labour was a spin-off of the Liberal party pre-WW1 and there is no realistic way to make Britain go communist even with a 19th century POD.

With the Ottoman Straits open and US loans, the RE can last longer and we're still far from having a Bolshevik takeover. I'm not certain about this but didn't Wilson put some limitations on loans to the Entente so that when the US joins the Entente is bankrupt? Either way if the US joins in...

It could certainly limit its reliance on France and GB for raw materials, have a better industry and have a better military leadership which is enough to not be constantly reliant on Germany (if they still are on the same side).

I think they would since the Republicans wanted to preserve the Union at any cost, so the only way for the South and the Europeans to win is to crush the Union completely at which point they would have to recognize the South in the peace deal.

As a matter of fact regimes much more oppressive than the Tsar managed to exist for far longer than Nicholas' reign without doing any reforms. The RE while not the most stable of all was not an entity that would collapse on itself out of nowhere. And is not going to happen, the Revolution of...

Not really, while very hated the Tsarist regime always managed to put down any attempt at revolt and without the Ottoman Straits blockaded more supplies can go to Russia, once the war is over while there will be some problems the population isn't as dissatisfied as during wartime, mainly because...

Slightly less harsh on Germany since the Entente suffered less. Probably, at that point the situation was still under control so an end to the war would mean they would be able to survive with perhaps a few concessions to ethnical minorities. They would lose important territories to the Entente...

Until the point where the Kolchak team arrests them all, it is possible something changes with the Czechoslovak Legion but regardless of that the ultra-conservatives personified by Kolchak will never be able to collaborate for long with the SRs. And Makhno is irrelevant, he would only have a...

AFAIK the British Parliament had already decided to get involved in WW1 and only used the Schlieffen Plan as an excuse, so the declaration of war is delayed by a week.

Achaemenid Persia suffered for centuries from internal infighting and rebellious satraps, and it was a very decentralized state, any state of that size who tries to be centralized (which would be Alexander's goal if he doesn't go for any other conquest) would face a lot of troubles, not counting...

Isn't Mongolia eating big chunks of Russia and China on this map? How can they realistically achieve this? They need at least the support of one of them to be able to beat the other (most likely support from Russia to beat the divided China)

The fact that they aren't on war time economy anymore means that they produce much less than IOTL 1918, supporting the Whites isn't that important to them. Support which was far from being enough to save the Whites. Because making Russia return into the war would be beneficial to them and the...

For what I've read he believed that China was surrounded on all sides from hostile powers and that Japan was a lesser evil compared to France, Britain, the US and USSR. And that China was too backward so it had to compromise with Japan.

Russification never really worked anywhere. Russifying the Baltics and Finland will not bring any more successes than the one in Poland did.